The Straits Budget, 18 October 1956
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The Straits Budget
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Title Section31 1956-10-18 1 The Straits Budget IMF WEEKLY issue of th# times mautav national mnnrtfia r *V- a Series No. 536. Singapore, October, 18, 1856. ::A.'. 'm Prieo 40 cent# (Malayan) Or 1 Shilling.31 words
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Article219 1956-10-18 2 EmpText - EmpText Singapore rrHERE was a report Inf 1 the press that the Arttflclal Limbs Department of the General Hos- pital may dose down because “it Is not paying.” If this report is correct, and If the question of financial returns is a deciding factor in a department,219 words
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140 1956-10-18 2 AGAINST OBSCENE BAGGING V - AGAINST OBSCENE BAGGING V' Singapore >£> if- i 1 WRITE this letter. to c: tell the public the truth about ragging in the University of Malaya- -ctR?# The “freshles” have been reported as saying that there has only been “good clean Tan.” My140 words
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Article79 1956-10-18 2 M IBRAHIM - M IBRAHIM Singapore WREH the visit of H.RJEL Duke of Edinburgh was first announced in the press, it was stated that every one would be given l the opportunity of seeing him. yv-. vy i I? It was. tnerefore. with': greafe surprise and dis-79 words
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Article114 1956-10-18 2 T. A. MCGAN - T. A. MCGAN Singapore I CANNOT why there should be so much hue and cry* about strip teasing when, as I see it. many women almost indulge in it daily revealing such points of beauty as a fine bosom; waist, necks, etc. The Maryln Monroe114 words
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Article165 1956-10-18 2 PRINCIPAL - PRINCIPAL Singapore §J AnilfEWB item recently stated that there were a numbej of University graduates who had been' unable to And congenial employment. 1 am principal of a Mission School in Singapore and for three consecutive 1 days*': I placed advertisements for a woman graduate to be165 words
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Article128 1956-10-18 2 OLD TELOK AYER BABA - OLD TELOK AYER BABA -aJ* V 1 > LJUWJr Singapore lip. LEE KUAN YEW was reported in your issue "of October 11 as having condemned the recent action taken by the Singapore Ministry of Education against subversive Chinese school students as a “Brl-tish-style purge I and very128 words
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Article141 1956-10-18 2 JESWANT SINGH " **• . w - JESWANT SINGH w II H A ££S.wh the on not Tn ?i^! 6rS 1 “Sh not an expert, hav the following suggestion to make: 0 3 J3JI' A 3 money ie-ciers I should have a banki a J! count of at least a i ew thousand141 words
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Article, Illustration150 1956-10-18 2 Nicholas, MB E who Hied in Singapore recently at the age of 81, was working as a civil engineer at the Singapore Harbour Board until he was 73 He first retired at the age of 55 but was recalled, and he went150 words
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Article122 1956-10-18 2 A RESIDENT - A RESIDENT 8ingapocfi<‘. AGREE wholeheartedly Vt: with “Inconvinced n that more buses should be put on Thomson Road area especially during ruah. hours. I would, therefore,* sug- Sjjj gest that the Tay Koh Yat Bus Company extend its route to Finlay son Green via Beach122 words
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Article33 1956-10-18 2 S. NARAYANAN - S. NARAYANAN. Kuala Lumpur, f u «.u. i s x, r sr~1 npHE 1 Straits Times on the short-listed national anthems broadcast by Radio Malaya is ignorant, irresponsible and thoroughly un-Bationafe$33 words
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Article39 1956-10-18 2 SINGAPORE, Oct 1 Singapore Police yest. detained a 21-year-old Chi who. they belleve ls a her of a gang known to committed 10 robberies month. A revolver was Iceman will be charge court today. Jjjp*%39 words
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Miscellaneous40 1956-10-18 2 -r TT SIAM maiava i "V* /i ‘it R *r 7 s. 5*3 uti '•/*y f i v.*: SK V* 14 £5 jg HU /‘The Communists cross the herder into* Siam almost like gentlemen 1 Phao, Siamese Chief of Police.40 words
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The Straits Budget
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Article651 1956-10-18 3 —Straits Times, Oct. 11. Singapore’s Minister of Education has called upon the management committees and supervisors of Chinese middle schools to dismiss teachers and expel pupils w ho have been guilty of serious offences. They are also required to forbid unauthorised meetings and suspend boys and girls—Straits Times, Oct. 11. - 651 words
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Article315 1956-10-18 3 —Straits Times, Oct. 12. The Singapore Government is acting wisely but firmly in its handling of the revolt in the Chinese middle schools. On Wednesday, it ordered the principals and supervisors to expel 142 students, dismiss two teachers and restore discipline. These orders were immediately challenged by—Straits Times, Oct. 12. - 315 words
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Article401 1956-10-18 3 —Straits Times, Oct. 12. In an adjoining column we publish a letter from the principal of a Singapore school which would like to appoint a woman graduate of the University 0 f Malaya to be head of the school’s English department. Three consecutive advertisements have attracted—Straits Times, Oct. 12. - 401 words
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Article640 1956-10-18 3 —Straits Times Oct. 13 “Is every boy and every girl in the Chinese middle schools a Communist?” This is a question that has been flung out angrily, at one time or another, by those who would have Singapore accept school indiscipline, defiance of the law and the—Straits Times Oct. 13 - 640 words
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Article287 1956-10-18 3 —Straits Times Oct. 13 The Brunei State Council has not allowed shortage of doctors to hamper its plans for the expansion of medical services. A recent enactment passed by the Council confers recognition on what may be called locally qualified practitioners of the art of medicine as against—Straits Times Oct. 13 - 287 words
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Article236 1956-10-18 4 —Straits Times Oct. 13 An encouraging feature of Singapore politics has been the virtual absence of organised communal politics. This has been reflected in the constitutions Singapore has had since the war. There has been no demand for protection of communal interests, but for the extension of equal—Straits Times Oct. 13 - 236 words
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Article607 1956-10-18 4 —Straits Times, Oct. 15. There is much that is encouraging in Sir Sydney Caine’s speech which the acting Vice-Chancellor read out at the University of Malaya’s Convocation Day. In 1947 the Carr-Saunders Commission, looking ten years ahead, foresaw a student body a thousand strong and a fulltime academic—Straits Times, Oct. 15. - 607 words
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Article629 1956-10-18 4 —Straits Times. Oct. 16. Changes practically each year in the method of pre- senting the Federation’s budget make detailed comparison tedious and difficult, if not almost impossible. But the over-all figures stand out, however they are allocated or divided, and the changes have produced now an easily intelligible—Straits Times. Oct. 16. - 629 words
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Article694 1956-10-18 4 JIOAAI, —Straits Times, Oct. i<- The suggestion that the chance of peaceful Malayan progress to independence would be greatly enhanced if the Government of Communist China made its own peaceful intentions somewhat plainer to all Overseas Chinese is not new. The Chinese Premier’s several statements on Malaya,JIOAAI, —Straits Times, Oct. i<- - 694 words
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Article92 1956-10-18 4 JOHNSTON: To Hwjj‘ aI J t Barbara, a son Jeremy > i0th. the K K. Hospltalon HOOPER—ROSS Tne jQhn ment Is announced betviren A elder son of Mr. and M*- on ly Hooper r Ro^ nd daughter of Col. W. A. Mrs. Ross. ptth* Th« DAWSON a 5ST;2i be»^92 words
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Article, Illustration951 1956-10-18 5 Eyesjure less bloodshed with patriotic passion as they study the balance sheets of Sues crisis Two months ago, in this column, I drew up a “balance sheet of ten disastrous days,” which was as unpopular as are all balance sheets i n which most entries appear in951 words
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127 1956-10-18 5 LUMPUR, Oct. 16 —The Chief Minister Tengku Abdul Rahman, is to have a say in the appointment of the Chief Justice and the AttorneyGeneral after merdeka day. This is provided for in the proposed Judicial and Legal Service Commission. The appointments of127 words
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351 1956-10-18 5 SINGAPORE, Oct. 17 T'HE Borneo Company —one of the oldest, biggest and proudest British trading concerns in the East is preparing for its centen a r y celebrations later this month. The chairman, Mr. C. R. Akers, has arrived from London to take351 words
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66 1956-10-18 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Oct. 16.—The Malayan Indian Association told the Reid Constitutional Commission today that the present Government should be dissolved when independence is proclaimed and a caretaker Government sworn in to carry out a new general election. Everv Malayan national who has reached the age66 words
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105 1956-10-18 5 rpHE Singapore Family Planning Association has received a $1,500 cheque from Mrs. Ellen Watumull, of the Watumull Foundation in Honolulu. Mrs. Goh Kok Kee, chairman of the association, said Mrs. Watumull, wife of the millionaire, was a keen student of family planning problems. She105 words
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1122 1956-10-18 6 CHORTLY before he left Singapore Sir Sydney Caine, former Vice Chancellor was asked his opinion of a 55 age limit for university professors. Sir Sydney put his view emphatically. “I think 55 Ls a ridiculously low limit”, he said. (The term1,122 words
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Article, Illustration9 1956-10-18 6 LOAD CARRIERS Photo by Lee Foo San— Photo by Lee Foo San - 9 words
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Article284 1956-10-18 6 LUMPUR, Oct. AY 14—The Conference of Rulers is planning the biggest postwar garden party here for the Duke of Edinburgh on Nov. 1 The party—a highlight of the Duke’s one-day visit —will be at the Taylor Road Istana of the Sultan of Selangor and will284 words
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Article158 1956-10-18 6 KLANG, Oct. 14. rpHE Chief Minister, Tengku Abaul Rahman, was today questioned by UMNO officials on the “special rights” of the Malays after independence at a two-and-a-half hour meeting here. After the meeting, attended by more than 100 officials of the seven UMNO divisions In158 words
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Article51 1956-10-18 6 PENANG, Oct. 15.—A cyclist rode off during the weekend after throwing acid on pedestrian, K. ponnusamy. Ponnusamy was walking along Pitt Street with a friend when an unkno man wearing a raincoat, cycled up to them and suck. enly hurled acid. The man escaped on ni51 words
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Article838 1956-10-18 7 VEMtXOX BARTLETT - VEMtXOX BARTLETT rpURN your attention for a few moments from the Chinese schools and the Suez Canal to that most interesting of men, President Tito of Yugoslavia. He’s worthy of it. Some four months ago, he received so flattering a welcome in Moscow that a838 words
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Article426 1956-10-18 7 —TUAN DJEK - Countryman ’s Journal —TUAN DJEK. QNE morning at 7.30 the barking of TYMOTW’s* dogs was heard close by as they chased some animal. The Cook was told to go below to see that our dogs were not involved with T’s. He was in time to see a young pig crossing426 words
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Article82 1956-10-18 7 (From the Straits Times of October 13, 1906) rpHE Russian Government X has called upon Europ ean powers to suppress all anarchists found within their own territories, claiming that the views disseminated by them are conducive to revolutionary disturbances All the powers with the exception of England(From the Straits Times of October 13, 1906) - 82 words
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220 1956-10-18 7 LUMPUR, Oct 12. The Minister for Commerce and Industry, P r Ismail bin Dato Abdul Rahman, said today that he Government had ''’ays of estimating the amount of rubber China required for civilian needs. After these needs were Jpot, exporters would220 words
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445 1956-10-18 7 A r IDrr SINGAPORE, Oct 15 A LARGE number of Singapore Chinese school students converged on the Singapore Badminton Hall yesterday and found the People’s Action Party protest meeting great fun. They roared at the Jokes cracked by PAP leaders at the445 words
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Article1500 1956-10-18 8 CHEW PLAN TO END OVER-CROWDING SINGAPORE, Oct. 11 'THE immediate expulsion of 142 pupils from eight Singapore Chinese schools was ordered yesterday by the Minister for Education, Mr. Chew Swee Kee. He also directed t hat two teachers be sacked and seven others warned. Mr.1,500 words
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171 1956-10-18 8 SINGAPORE GOVERNMENT swung into action again yesterday to rid Chinese schools of Communist elements. ACT ONE took the form of the arrest of two boys and a girl. One boy is to be banished. The other boy and the girl are being171 words
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Article78 1956-10-18 8 KUALA LUMPUR, Oct. 10. An Honours graduate at the London School of Economics is among the four non-Malays just selected for the Malayan Civil Service. He is Mr. Lim Kim Cheng, of Malacca, who was awarded a Colonial Development and Welfare Scholarship for studies in78 words
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Article, Illustration81 1956-10-18 9 LADY BLACK, wife of the Governor of Singapore, blows out the candles on a cake, topped by a miniature nurse and patient, at the opening of a diversional therapy exhibition at the Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Moulmein Road. Lady BlackStraits Times picture. - 81 words
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554 1956-10-18 9 SINGAPORE, Oct. 11 INGAPORE police were alerted last night when more than 4,000 students took over control of two of the Colony’s largest Chinese middle schools. tension mounted at the l hung Cheng School in Goodman Road and the Chinese High School in Bukit Timah554 words
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Article328 1956-10-18 9 SINGAPORE, Oct. 11 THE FIRST of 10 new district hospitals, to serve 1 Singapore's outlying areas and relieve pressure 1 the General Hospital, will be built at Bedok by Hie end of 1958. 1 Announcing this yesterday, Health Minister, Mr. A. J. H:ai>a. said328 words
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248 1956-10-18 9 IT UAL A LUMPUR. Oct.' 10 The Director of the Federation’s Public Works Department, Mr. K. K. Nankivell said today that the $5,000,000 double-decker bridge to be built over the Klang River would be the biggest engineering feat ever to be undertaken in the248 words
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Article226 1956-10-18 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Oct. 10 J'HE FEDERATION Government is to spend $797,500,000 next year, excluding capital expenditure. A Bill to provide for this sum being taken from general revenue is to be introduced at the budget meeting of the Federal Legislative Council next month. Biggest provision226 words
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127 1956-10-18 9 SINGAPORE, Oct. 11. E'REIGHT rates on cargo between Malaya and Australia are to be increased soon by about 10 per cent. All commodities except timber from Malaya and cereals from Australia for which the rates were put up only recently will be127 words
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1201 1956-10-18 10 SINGAPORE, Oct. 12 TUP] closure of cc s two Chinese middle schools seems inevitable. In spite of attempts by headmasters to avert this Government action. 2.X00 pupils at one of the schools yesterday resolved to continue camping there “until a reasonable settlement is secured.1,201 words
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148 1956-10-18 10 SINGAPORE, Oct. I* S. DRAGOON, one 1 the two teachers sacked from the Chuns? Cheng High School in the Singapore Government s schools purge said yesterday that he would ask the Ministry of Education to give him reasons for his dismissal Mr Dragoon,148 words
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Article242 1956-10-18 10 Chief Minister gives permission SINGAPORE. Oct. 12 T'HE Chief Minister, A Mr. Lim Yew Hock, has given the Singapore Trades Union Congress permission for a lawyer and a union representative to interview Tan Lay Boon, an official of the Army Civil Service Union, who is242 words
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268 1956-10-18 10 Kuala lumpur, oct. 11. The Minister for Education, Dato Abdul Razak bin Hussain, today ordered all schools In the Federation to bar their doors to the 142 students expelled yesterday from Singapore Chinese institutions. He also gave instructions that the two teachers sacked268 words
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Article37 1956-10-18 10 IPOH, Oct. 11—A PJatrol of the Royal Scots Fusiliers fif -J on a terrorist gang sittu. round a fire in the Ipoh at last night. The bandits fled, flnu several shots as they ran.37 words
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977 1956-10-18 11 SINGAPORE Oct. 12 VIORE THAN 6,000 students made preparations yesterday for •i long, long stay at the Chinese High School in Bukit Timah Road and the Chung Cheng High School in Goodman Road. All day. students were ecu entering the schools977 words
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Article206 1956-10-18 11 SINGAPORE. Oct. 12 T HE People’s Action Party yesterday announced its A support of Singapore UMNO in its objection to the new voting provision in the Local Government Elections Bill. This provision gives the franchise to all adults who have lived in Singapore for five206 words
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Article467 1956-10-18 11 THE CHIEF yesterday evening fired a starter’s pistol to open the Singapore Youth Sports Centre after declaring: “We will be proud if one day we can say that the achievement of merdeka was won on the playing fields of Kallang.” The shot was one of467 words
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Article, Illustration63 1956-10-18 11 SINGAPORE. Oct. 13 MRS. NITIMIH ARDJO MARUTO, leader of a 10member women’s delegation representing the Congress Wanita Indonesia, who passed through Singapore by KLM yesterday on her way to Moscow. The party is making the trip at the invitation of the Soviet Women’sStraits Times picture. - 63 words
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Article93 1956-10-18 11 SEREMBAN, Oct. 12 —Ah Ho, Negri Sembilan State Committee secretary and highestranking terrorist in the state, was killed by men of the 6th Bn. the Malay Regiment last night near Kuala Pillah. His death was the result of a follow-up launched after two other bandits93 words
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Article26 1956-10-18 11 SEGAMAT. Oct. 12—Wong Koon Cheong, 25. was charged hero today with possessing terrorist documents at Jementah New Village. Bail was opposed.26 words
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1156 1956-10-18 12 On with new classes soon SINGAPORE, Od. 13 JHE Singapore (Government won at least allies among Chinese middle school students yesterday morning when it closed the Chinese High School and the Chung Cheng High School. And more will come forward to align themselves with the1,156 words
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Article234 1956-10-18 12 SINGAPORE. Oct. 13 4 NOTHER member of the Singapore Polytechnic’s 1 Board of Governors, Mr. Chew Hock Leong, has resigned. This lollows the resignation of Prof. E.H.G. Dobby. announced on Oct. 10. It brings the number of resignations from the board since it was formed to234 words
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298 1956-10-18 12 SINGAPORE, Oct. 13 THE letter which ?ix boys representing "iree students” of the Chung Cheng High School presented to the Minister for Education yesterday appealed to him to put an end to "destructive elements whose aim is to undermine Chinese education.” For298 words
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286 1956-10-18 12 Lark Sye lashes ‘barking dog Chew SINGAPORE, Oct. 13 THE Singapore multi-mil-lionaire, Mr. Tan Lark Sye. yesterday accused the Government of deliberately for ring Chinese school students into "a state of misery.” Mr. Tan, who is a vicechairman of the management committee of the Chinese High School told a Press286 words
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Article64 1956-10-18 12 ALOR STAR. Oct. ll— A police convoy taking members of a special squad to Serdang drove through a hail of bullets during a bandit ambush on the main road near Kulim yesterday afternoon. There were no casualties. The convoy g u a r later found64 words
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195 1956-10-18 13 THE United Malays National Organisation 1 decided on Oct. 12 to send an ultimatum to the Labour Front Government demanding “full implementation” of the Malay education plan submitted a year ago. The ultimatum which will go195 words
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Article501 1956-10-18 13 SINGAPORE, Oct. 13 ['HE Acting Vice-Chancellor, Prof. E. H. G. Dobby, yesterday confirmed that Malayanisation was the root cause of the exodus of senior professors from the University of Malaya. Eleven expatriate tutors Had left or announced i.iat they were leaving, in the past academic501 words
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151 1956-10-18 13 IPOH. Oct. 10.—One hundred representatives of Chinese guilds and associations in Perak today passed a vote of confidence in the leadership of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek. They bowed three times before a picture of Gen. Chiang at a tea party at the Chinese Chamber151 words
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Article, Illustration82 1956-10-18 13 SINGAPORE, Oct. 12. THE VENERABLE CHUK MOR, leader of an 18-mem-ber Singapore Chinese Buddhist delegation which left for Bangkok by CPA yesterday on their way to Nepal to attend the fourth conference of the World Fellowship of Buddhists. The conference to be held at Katmandu82 words
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77 1956-10-18 13 MALACCA, Oct. 10—High government officials and heads of departments in Malacca declined invitations to attend a cocktail party this evening to celebrate the ‘‘Double Tenth” anniversary. A number of local Chinese associations, headed by the Malacca Chinese Chamber of Commerce, were hosts77 words
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Article50 1956-10-18 13 KUALA LUMPUR, Oct. 10 A small group of Chinese here today celebrated “Double Tenth,’ the Chinese National Day. at a simple ceremony in the Chinese Assembly Hall. They later bowed three times before a portrait of the “Father” of the Chinese Republic, Dr. Sun Yat Sen.50 words
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446 1956-10-18 13 KUALA LUMPUR, Oct. 12—The origin of the “Shlewgo Lingo” aptitude test which today came in for widespread criticism has been explained b>y the Education Department’s Controller of Examinations, Mr. G. D. Muir. He said the words used were devised by officials of the Education446 words
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Article119 1956-10-18 13 SEGAMAT, Oct. 12 TWO Chinese civilians were found murdered in the Sepamat area yesterday. Both are suspected to have been victims of Communist atrocities. On e of them, Tan Leong San, a 40-year-old tapper at Kampong Tengah, had been missing from home for three days. His son,119 words
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2128 1956-10-18 14 M.UN6TON KENNARD - By M.UN6TON KENNARD IN front of the massive Tien An Men an immense river of people flowed seemingly without end. After the goosestepping armw navy and air force, after the motorised infantry, the mobile guns, the radar trucks and the Russian tanks, came2,128 words
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Article73 1956-10-18 14 SINGAPORE. Oct. 14. Officials of the Singap"W and Federation of Malaya section of the Inst it nti« Structural Engineers elect* at its inaugural meeting week are: Chairman Mr. T. Kj* rn kar; secretary Mr. vv Cursiter; treasurer Mr o Chou; committee memb Messrs. T. F.Lee.J.D. BanWee Soo73 words
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488 1956-10-18 15 SINGAPORE, Oct. 14. JN a solemn and spectacular convocation ceremony in the Victoria Memorial Hall yesterday, the Chancellor of the University of Malaya, Mr. Malcolm MacDonald, conferred degrees on 245 new graduates. The occasion was made a landmark in the University’s history by488 words
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Article574 1956-10-18 15 BULK OF VARSITY CASH STILL FROM OVERSEAS The University of Malaya’s former Vice-Chancellor, Sir Sydney Caine, gave a severe trouncing yesterday to older graduates for their failure to rally to the University’s moral and financial support. Sir Sydney’s address to the University Convocation in the574 words
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Article124 1956-10-18 15 FLED IN THEIR UNDERPANTS fPOH, Oct. 12. A gang x .of five terrorists escaped in their underclothes after grabbing their weapons a few minutes before a security force patrol charged into their camp yesterday afternoon. The camp was found In deep jungle in the Slputeh area124 words
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Article81 1956-10-18 15 ALOR STAR, Oct. 14. A GIANT buU elephant is terrorising 300 flllagers at Kampong Nami, a remote settlement populated by Siamese and Malays, 36 miles east of here. In the last week the tusker has uprooted 15 young coconut trees and damaged banana and padi crops.81 words
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Article183 1956-10-18 15 SINGAPORE. Oct. 15 T'HE Federation’s Minister for Works and CommuniA cations, Inche Sardon bin Haji Jubir, yesterday said that an independent Malaya would look upon the Malays living in Singapore as its own people and would support their struggle for freedom. Speaking at an UMNO west183 words
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Article163 1956-10-18 15 Mr. MacDonald said he was tremendously proud to be the University’s Chancellor and that he number- ma, »y friends among year’s crop of new doctors, teachers, adminisi, trat ors and others. regretted that the distinguished of the graduates Sir Sydney Caine could not be present163 words
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118 1956-10-18 15 BRUNEI TOWN, Oct. 13. THE citizens of Brunei Town have told the Sultan that they are unwilling at present to participate in local government. And because to try to compel the people would be a denial of democracy, the Sultan has postponed the enforcement118 words
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Article2003 1956-10-18 16 A LUNCTON; KENNARD - Survey of China's progress in the industrial field by A LUNCTON KENNARD CHINA’S unmistakable pride in her industrial progress does not discount the many difficulties she faces, nor exaggerate what has been achieved The principal targets of Uhe first five-year plan have already been surpassed2,003 words
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111 1956-10-18 16 SINGAPORE, Oct. 16. AN ARGUMENT between a soldier and a N.C.O. one night in Singapore last month had nothing to do with L/Cpl. Thomas Dixon Raynor, aged 21. But Raynor, of the Singapore District Workshop, REME, did not like t,h e N.C.O. or his111 words
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610 1956-10-18 17 SINGAPORE, Oct. 14 £OLLAPSE of the Singapore middle schools student rebellion appeared imminent yesterday as parents gave strong backing to a Government plan to reform the schools. Hundreds of parents forced their sons 3nd daughters home from two school camps after hearing a broadcast610 words
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352 1956-10-18 17 ‘I ACCEPT TOKEN OF SURRENDER* SINGAPORE, Oct. 14 THE Chief Minister, Mr. Lim Yew Hock, yesterday turned the tables on six men who handed him a black flag “symbolising the death of democratic rights and liberties in Singapore.” Accepting the flag in the352 words
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265 1956-10-18 17 VARSITY CRISIS? NONSENSE SAY COUNCIL MEN SINGAPORE, Oct. 15 ttEVEN members of the University of Malaya Council are confident that the university will be able to attract the “best brains” for its tutorial staff despite the resignation of 11 senior nro- fessors. Dr. T. E. Tay in a statement on265 words
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Article24 1956-10-18 17 SEGAMAT, Oct. 11. The Government English School at Pontian is to have a new science laboratory and additional classrooms costing nearly $75,000.24 words
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Article28 1956-10-18 17 J. BAHRU, Oct. 12. Mr. C. H. Hill-Willis, the harbour master, will be leaving Johore Bahru lor Port Swettenham at the end of the month on transfer.28 words
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97 1956-10-18 17 Reds told to give up—150,000 times SEGAMAT, Oct. 12. RA.F. plane dropped 150,000 leaflets over the Bukit Slput and Tenang areas of Segamat today urging Communist terrorists there to come out and surrender. The leaflets also tell the terrorists of the deaths of five of their leaders killed by patrols97 words
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Article254 1956-10-18 17 JPOH, Oct. 12. —Malayan 4 tin miners have begun an unprecedented rush to dispose of their stocks of tin ore before Oct. 15 because on that date they will have to start making contributions towards the cost of Malaya’s share of the tin buffer254 words
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Article25 1956-10-18 17 JOHORE BAHRU, Oct. 12. Ungku Chlk bin Omar, has been appointed private secretary to the Regent of Johore in place of Ungku Moshin.25 words
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Advertisement43 1956-10-18 17 STRAITS BUDGET SUBSCRIPTION RATES (PAYABLE IN ADVANCE) The weekly issues of the Straits Budget can be sent by express air delivery service to the United Kingdom only at an inclusive rate of $24.00 for six months. (ALL THE ABOVE ARE IN MALAYAN CURRENCY)43 words
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Article1894 1956-10-18 18 ALLINGTON KENNARD - iJEmphasis on production and socialist emulation By ALLINGTON KENNARD WHILE Manchuria is still the industrial showwindow, North-West China, from Inner Mongolia to Tibet, offers immense potentialities which the planners have begun to seize. New cities, new industries are in the building. The oil, coal and1,894 words
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205 1956-10-18 18 QEREMBAN, Oct. 16. The British High Commissioner in India, Mr. Malcolm MacDonald, will give away the bride on Oct. 20, at Seremban’s most fashionable wedding since the war. The bride, Dr. (Miss) Mollie Ong Slew Choo, is the eldest daughter of the late Dr. Ong205 words
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Article39 1956-10-18 18 JOHORE BAHRU, Oct 15Pte. E. Benstead, of ti.e Queen’s Royal Regiment, v. \s fined $50 In the Magistrate i Court here today for drivuj a military truck negligent and colliding with a telepru nstandard on June 25.39 words
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Article788 1956-10-18 19 EPSOM JEEP - By EPSOM JEEP vrlNE YEAR OLD Big Hit, one of the oldest horses in raining, celebrated ■is 70th onting on he Malayan Turf vith a thrilling deadheat with Flying ilose on Oct 10, econd day of the I’enang Turf Club \utumn Meeting. Big Hit, Flying Close788 words
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Article1020 1956-10-18 19 EPSOM JEEP - By EPSOM JEEP \yiNDSQK H, cleverly ridden by Posner, Bold a last-furlong challenge by Allkits and Gelfang Star to takes the Autumn Cup main event of the Penang Turf lub October meeting mi Oct. If, final day of the meeting. Windsor II, who paid >331,020 words
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241 1956-10-18 19 t SDJOAPOR£, Oct. 16. T*HE Singapore Youth 1 Sports Centre will have ite coaching staff, which now stands at r; two. Raymond Kaufman Hand Wong Peng Soon Increased very soon. In fact, the service* of a rymnaetlc coach has already been acquired. On241 words
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Miscellaneous83 1956-10-18 19 BIG SWEEP uff*“ 2ND: *****4 (*20,376) ’KD: *****0 (*10,1(6) STARTERS (*2,540 each): N<». *****9, *****7, ******, 11*973, *****3. CONSOLATIONS (*763 No*. *****4, *****1, 2S2®' 11*344, *****9, *****6, 10*817, *****9. *28*56/ ******. TREBLE TOTE: There no whmlnc ©ombfnation *n* 11,845 wQl be carried ©▼er to Saturday. TOTAL POOL: $185,240. tel: No.83 words
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Article483 1956-10-18 20 [share market By Our Market Correspondent SINGAPORE, Oct THE main features of the Singapore Share Market last week were the strength of rubber shares and the continued Inters! in sterling tin counters. Both tin and rubber companies announced a crop of good dividends and in the483 words
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Article251 1956-10-18 20 npHE following businepi dona 1 in the Singapore Share Market last week was reported by one Arm of broken for the period October 6 to October U:— 'SSW INDUSTRIALS: Fraser ft Neave Ords. *2*o ft *2.17 cd. cb.. Gammons *l .BB '•,< l 90, Hammer ft Co. 18.17V4251 words
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142 1956-10-18 20 By Our Market Correspondent SIWAWWE. Oh IT IS three week* since the London finance K 1 Camp Bird, announced they were to make ,j 'fe.the shareholders of IS Malayan mining tin Panics, so that tbOy could be formed into an r “powerful"142 words
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Article22 1956-10-18 20 E? wPf United Malacca 181,152 W* Ayer Moirk 27,750 lb; Leong Hto fian, Ltd. 56,000 u>: and Nyalas 4**65 lb.22 words
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Article36 1956-10-18 20 Hoagel Way tin we output for the quarter ended September 38 was 4,545 piculs. NO. 2 D«dge resumed operation on July 21, after conversion to electrical dtflb isplattpg pontoo& Prom thatodate dredges -'were working.36 words
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Article15 1956-10-18 20 sSpjSi^•i’xwSTftori o^ Kiuragnaii ainifi t a*i IT > infill Un 705,'KaJo«f 5430, Ltt*® >£? -*V-15 words
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Article139 1956-10-18 20 Alas BrleM ~Svs!\ !j£f I OfQl AttSft 106 >...*» IDUJfIIJ I B, m. B/j Nca?c f 4«a H f* g _g« age Q 0 O. Ohlneot Bank 14.40 ,*4 ho ca r Ordi I.S I a i me .00 XOS xd I Strait* Steamship l&.&O 16 70139 words
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Article13 1956-10-18 20 IvOCk Pfflßtton *qt arc (in ions).- steady nn^^rtotie13 words